PUBLISHED DECISIONS:

1026.  Oral trust and real property.
Bickett v. Cecil

1031.  Criminal Law.  Motion to suppress.  DNA. Discovery violations.
Terry v. Commonwealth of Kentucky 

1032.   Civil Procedure.  Torts.  Reversed & remanded default judgment for slip and fall at Campbell House in Lexington .
HP Hotel Management v. Layne

1035.  Workers Compensation.  Reversed and remanded ALJ decision that Overstreet’s permanent partial disability benefits terminate when he reaches normal old-age Social Security retirement age pursuant to Kentucky Revised Statute (KRS) 342.730(4)
Overstreet v. American Printing House for the Blind

1036.  Family Law.  Vacated DVO and remanded to family court for full evidentiary hearing.
Allen v. Gueltzow

Selected cases that were not designated for publication in tort, insurance and civil law. None.

None

You will find the complete list of this week’s decisions below with number, names of parties, case number, lower court (eg., county), etc. with a hot link to the full text of the decision.  Please note that you will have to check Case Information for each decision for finality (if not already marked on first page of decision after publication), amendments, rehearing, or other matters including motions for discretionary review (MDR) filed with the Supreme Court of Kentucky.   Click Court of Appeals Minutes for entire listing of weekly minutes.


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All decisions regardless of publication are posted and can be read, but those decisions designated not for publication cannot be cited as legal authority.  See, KRCP 76.28(4)(c)(“Opinions that are not to be published shall not be cited or used as binding precedent in any other case in any court of this state; however, unpublished Kentucky appellate decisions, rendered after January 1, 2003, may be cited for consideration by the court if there is no published opinion that would adequately address the issue before the court. Opinions cited for consideration by the court shall be set out as an unpublished decision in the filed document and a copy of the entire decision shall be tendered along with the document to the court and all parties to the action.”)